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Orlando includes short event entries, freestanding and embedded in author profiles, about moments and processes relevant to literary history and organized into four categories: Women writers, Writing Climate, Political Climate, and Social Climate. Explore the timelines by searching for date(s) and/or words or phrases associated with them.

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Robert Southey: 1801

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1801

RS published his narrative poem Thalaba the Destroyer, a metrical romance in two volumes.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
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Joanna Southcott: January 1801

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January 1801

JS borrowed money to begin publication at Exeter of her first tract, The Strange Effects of Faith.
Hopkins, James K. A Woman To Deliver her People: Joanna Southcott and English Millenarianism in an Era of Revolution. University of Texas Press, 1982.
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Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books, 1997.
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Elizabeth, Smith: January 1801

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January 1801

Elizabeth Smith composed at Patterdale a landscape poem beginning The storm is past.
Smith, Elizabeth, 1776 - 1806. Fragments, in Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell, 1809.
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Mrs Showes: 1801

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1801

MS , as the author of Statira and The Restless Matron, published another translation from German: Agnes de Lilien. A Novel.
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Janet Schaw: 14 March 1792

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14 March 1792

JS made her will, at Plymouth, leaving everything to her Dear Brother Alexander Schaw Esq. She mentioned property in Ireland as well as England.
Ancestry.co.uk. http://www.ancestry.co.uk.

Anne Plumptre: 1801

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1801

AP published her finest novel, the epistolary Something New; or, Adventures at Campbell-House.
Plumptre, Anne. “Introduction”. Something New, edited by Deborah McLeod, Broadview, 1996, p. vii - xxix.
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Annabella Plumptre: 1801

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1801

The Western Mail was published, a collection of short fiction, epistolary in form, probably by AP .
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Amelia Opie: 1801

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1801

The now married AO switched to Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown for her first text to bear her name: her second novel, The Father and Daughter.
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Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 1999, p. i - xxix.
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Elizabeth Sarah Gooch: 1801

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1801

ESG published through Cawthorn , with her full name (Eliz. Sarah Villa-Real Gooch), Truth and Fiction, A Novel, in four volumes, of which two and three considerably expand the title.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 134-5

Elizabeth Hamilton: 1801

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1801

EH published Letters on Education.
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Hamilton, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah, edited by Pamela Perkins and Shannon Russell, Broadview, 1999, pp. 7-50.
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Margaret Holford, the elder: Probably early 1801

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Probably early 1801

The elder Margaret Holford published with her name, through the Minerva Press , First Impressions; or, The Portrait. A Novel, in four volumes, dedicated to Anna Seward .
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 135-6

Rachel Hunter: 1801

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1801

RH published with her name, through Longman , her first novel, Letitia; or, The Castle Without a Spectre.
Hunter, Rachel. Letitia; or, The Castle Without a Spectre. W. Robberds, 1801, 4 vols.
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Catherine Hutton: 1801

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1801

CH observed a slave ship at Liverpool and carefully reported its appearance.
Hutton, Catherine. Reminiscences of a Gentlewoman of the Last Century. Editor Beale, Catherine Hutton, Cornish Brothers, 1891.
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Hannah Kilham: 1801

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1801

HK moved to Sheffield from Nottingham, the scene of her married life.
Robertson, Fiona, and Fiona Robertson, editors. “Hannah Kilham (1774-1832)”. Women’s Writing 1778-1838, An Anthology, Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 485-7.
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Dickson, Mora. The Powerful Bond: Hannah Kilham 1774-1832. Dobson, 1980.
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Harriet Lee: 1801

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1801

HL 's fourth volume of Canterbury Tales (published in her name only, with a title-page quotation from James Beattie ) included the best-known among them: The German's Tale. Kruitzner.
Lee, Harriet, and Sophia Lee. Canterbury Tales. G. G. and J. Robinson, 1797–1805, 5 vols.
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Anna Maria Mackenzie: 1801

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1801

AMM published another novel with Lane of the Minerva Press : Swedish Mysteries, or, Hero of the Mines, in three volumes, ostensibly translated from a Swedish manuscript by Johanson Kidderslaw, formerly master of the...

Eliza Kirkham Mathews: 1801

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1801

In the year before her death, EKM published at York a book for children in two tiny volumes, Mornings' Amusements; or, Tales of Animals.
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Hannah More: 1801

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1801

HM had sufficient literary reputation to publish her Works in eight volumes.
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Sarah Murray : 1801

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1801

SM was off on her travels again, back to the Scottish Highlands and also to the Hebrides.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1801: The first public railway was established,...

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The first public railway was established, from Wandsworth near London to Croydon in Surrey, by the first railway company, the Surrey Iron Railway .
Hoole, Ken et al. Rail 150: The Stockton and Darlington Railway and What Followed. Eyre Methuen, 1975.
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Jackman, William T. The Development of Transportation in Modern England. 2nd ed., F. Cass, 1962.
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1801: Thomas Moore pseudonymously published his...

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1801

Thomas Moore pseudonymously published his mildly erotic Poetical Works of the Late Thomas Little Esq.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Tighe, Mary. “Introduction”. Verses Transcribed for H. T., edited by Harriet Kramer Linkin, 2015.
and notes 10-13

1801: The jacquard loom was invented in France,...

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The jacquard loom was invented in France, but it did not become widely used in Britain until the 1830s.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
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1 January 1801: The Act of Union linking Ireland and England...

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1 January 1801

The Act of Union linking Ireland and England came into effect.
MacDonagh, Oliver. Ireland: the Union and its Aftermath. George Allen and Unwin, 1977.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
under George III

1801: Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi suggested, in...

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Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi suggested, in Wie Gertrud ihre Kinder lehrt, that girls' education is even more vital than boys', since girls will one day educate children of their own.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
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Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.

1801: Sarah Shade dictated and published her autobiography,...

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Sarah Shade dictated and published her autobiography, A Narrative of the Life of Sarah Shade, which relates her life, marriages, and other experience in colonial India.
Pagden, Anthony. “Oak in a Flowerpot”. London Review of Books, 14 Nov. 2002, pp. 9-10.
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